A$ S when with downcast eyes we muse and brood, If one but speaks or hems or stirs his chair, That tho' I knew not in what time or place, II. TO F. M. K. MY hope and heart is with thee-thou wilt be A latter Luther, and a soldier-priest To scare church-harpies from the master's feast; Thou art no sabbath-drawler of old saws, MT III. INE be the strength of spirit, full and free, Like some broad river rushing down alone, With the self-same impulse wherewith he was thrown From his loud fount upon the echoing lea:— Which with increasing might doth forward flee By town, and tower, and hill, and cape, and isle, And in the middle of the green salt sea Keeps his blue waters fresh for many a mile. Mine be the power which ever to its sway Will win the wise at once, and by degrees May into uncongenial spirits flow; Ev'n as the warm gulfstream of Florida Floats far away into the Northern seas The lavish growths of southern Mexico. IV. ALEXANDER. ARRIOR of God, whose strong right arm debased WA The throne of Persia, when her Satrap bled At Issus by the Syrian gates, or fled Beyond the Memmian naphtha-pits, disgraced For ever thee (thy pathway sand-erased) There in a silent shade of laurel brown High things were spoken there, unhanded down; V. BUONAPARTE. He to chain with chains, and bind with bands E thought to quell the stubborn hearts of oak, That island queen who sways the floods and lands When from her wooden walls,-lit by sure hands,- VI. POLAND. OW long, O God, shall men be ridden down, HOW And trampled under by the last and least Of men? The heart of Poland hath not ceased The fields, and out of every smouldering town Transgress his ample bound to some new crown:- Oppress the region ?" Us, O Just and Good, Forgive, who smiled when she was torn in three; Us, who stand now, when we should aid the right— A matter to be wept with tears of blood! CARES VII. ARESS'D or chidden by the slender hand, Light Hope at Beauty's call would perch and stand, And Fancy watches in the wilderness, That sets at twilight in a land of reeds. VIII. HE form, the form alone is eloquent! THE A nobler yearning never broke her rest Than but to dance and sing, be gaily drest, And win all eyes with all accomplishment: Yet in the whirling dances as we went, To find my heart so near the beauteous breast The phantom of a wish that once could move, She still would take the praise, and care no more. IX. AN Sculptor, weepest thou to take the cast WA Of those dead lineaments that near thee lie? No tears of love, but tears that Love can die. Nor care to sit beside her where she sits- But breathe it into earth and close it up Which some green Christmas crams with weary bones. X. be, IF I were loved, as I desire tophere of the earth, And range of evil between death and birth, |